My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

Once again here to tap the mic and say Texas is a gerrymandered, voter repressed state, not a "red" state. And every one of you celebrating the (significant) win in Tarrant County better not be the same people in my mentions saying to throw the whole South away. There are good people fighting.

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it's quite funny that the international pedophile ring got QAnon to put them all in power.

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We’re crushed to hear that Catherine O’Hara has left us. Horror fans know her work in BEETLEJUICE and THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (as well as a memorable appearance in TALES FROM THE CRYPT), but her body of creativity beyond genre is an epic one. Our condolences to all who loved her.

If you haven't seen Schitt's Creek, you owe it to yourself to experience Catherine O'Hara's truly INCREDIBLE performance as Moira Rose

It's the 30th anniversary of Voyager's "Threshold", but it's also the 30th anniversary of DS9's "Crossfire", the one where Odo crashes out over Kira being in a relationship and Quark comforts him in his footie pajamas

The assumption that all romance is trash for dumb people who like formulas -- that's still a thing in TV & film. A big thing. Also, like, I'm sorry, but a middle or upper class man is an asshole and is doing crimes or solving crimes? That's not a genre? MORE formulaic than a romance? HILARIOUS

Yo why do all the minimizer bras I can find only go up to like H or I cup max??? Literally doesn't make sense, my dumbass chest needs minimizing the most and it's just a non-starter.

I refuse to die until I get to see Stephen Miller humiliated as publicly and devastatingly as possible. It is the most important thing in the world to me.

-5°F in Minneapolis tonight. At the site where feds killed Alex Pretti, the air still smells faintly of tear gas. Hundreds of people still here behind some impromptu barricades. Message spray painted on the road reads, "fuck ICE, love always wins."

Even the worst person alive should not be gunned down in the street by the state. Still, it is very striking how the people killed by DHS agents in the Twin Cities have been the sorts of Americans we routinely celebrate as "our best." Were I writing a book, I'd call the intended moral over-obvious.

Photograph by Jeff Wheeler/@startribune.com (pls credit in the post, not only alt text. so most will see it. 🙏🏼)

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.

Something @mskellymhayes.bsky.social said a few years back that I still think about pretty often

People keep trying to diagnose Trump based on the wine-colored stain on his hand without considering the obvious answer. (It is a metaphorical representation of his sin he cannot scrub out no matter how hard he tries.)

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.

I have built up a decent amount of good will here at this protestant christian coffee shop during my time back in Oklahoma. the baristas call me a regular. they say, "regular for the regular?" and I say "ahhhh ya got me!" I've not yet accepted their god

Look, it's simple. We just want the worst person in the world to die

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

im so sorry.. that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee

Hope y'all are raising hell together on the other side of the rainbow bridge 🥹💙

Data: "You must say goodbye now." Lal: "I... feel." Data: "What do you feel, Lal?" Lal: "... I love you, father." Data: "... ...I wish I could feel it with you." Lal: (takes Data's hand) "I will feel it for both of us. Thank you for my life. " AUGGGHHHHH.

I think the comfort I take in the continued success of Avatar movies is the reassurance that online isn’t real.

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

My sign today.

i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo

ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

"Remember her" "Keep her in your thoughts" "Don't forget her" "Honor her memory" These are all things you can say about a deceased white woman who you want to honor and respect. You don't have to use "Say Her Name", which was specifically coined to stop the erasure of Black women.

I am bone fucking tired of the moral weighing of victims, as though they have to be exceptional for us to really care about the depth of the tragedy. They don't. She was, but that doesn't have to be nor should it be the case. She was murdered in front of us all, by people who think they can do it

Like there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.

Yes.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

the fash will murder a queer person and reporter after reporter and reply after reply on social media will erase the queer partner who watched that person die in front of them

The murder of a queer woman by domestic terrorist pigs is absolutely repugnant but I am BEGGING white liberals to have some self awareness. Pigs have been murdering POC for years. Saying Renee's murder is the worst thing you've seen since *checks notes* settler colonialism is a CHOICE.